U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Flood Risk Management
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Transcript U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Flood Risk Management
Flood Risk Management Update
Stephanie Bray
12/10/2013
US Army Corps of Engineers
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Federal Interagency Floodplain
Management Task Force Membership
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Federal Interagency Floodplain
Management Task Force
Current Activities
► EO
11988 survey on effectiveness of
implementation
► Enhancing technical assistance available to
coastal communities
► Understanding costs and losses due to flood
events
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PPD-8 Components
National
Preparedness Goal
National Preparedness System
National Planning Frameworks
Prevention
Protection
Mitigation
Response
Recovery
Federal Interagency Operational Plans
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Mitigation Framework
Leadership Group
Federal Flood Risk Reduction Standard
under development
Interagency team of subject matter experts
participating in development
Effort will build off of the efforts of the
Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force
and the President’s Climate Action Plan
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Silver Jackets
Delivering Inter-Agency Flood Risk Management
Partners
State-Led ( Voice of our Customers )
States set priorities for Interagency Federal support
States can invite partners Feds cannot
Interagency Method of Delivery ( MOD )
Collaboration across agencies / levels of government
Leverage resources: talent, data, funding
Improve flood risk communication:
unified interagency message
Continuous, not project-specific
Strategic Life-Cycle Risk Mgmt
Watershed Perspective
State teams facilitate
regional, state-to-state FRM
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Silver Jackets Interagency Projects
Forty-one (41) FRM and LS Projects
FY11-13
Twenty-five (25) States completing projects
$3.7M USACE investment leveraged
$4M from partners
Nineteen (19) Nonstructural Projects
NOAA
Other
State
FEMA
NWS
USGS
Local
FY13-14
Distribution of FRM and LS Project
Nineteen (19) States completing projects
Partner Leveraging
$2M USACE leveraged against $1M from partners
Demonstrate Benefits of Interagency Approach
Use existing authorities of multiple agencies
Leverage resources among Fed, State, Local, Tribal
Evaluate Outcomes, quantitatively and qualitatively
Assess
Risk
Raise
Awareness
Prompt
Action
Reduce/
Manage Risk
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Flood Risk Management –
Silver Jackets Workshops
2013 Flood Risk Management –
Silver Jackets Webinar Week a
huge success
► Over
400 people registered
► Approximately 150 participated at any given time
2014 Flood Risk Management – Silver
Jackets Workshop in planning process
► Anticipated
August 19-21, 2014 in Southbridge, MA
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Characterizing National Flood
Risk
Characterize national flood risk for policyoriented purposes, internally within
USACE and then externally with partners
Demonstrate specific USACE contribution
to achieved flood risk reduction
Characterize future flood risks
Characterize national and regional risk
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Questions?
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